“[There’s] pressure from the day I finish the movie to the day I watch the movie, I freak out each time . . . it gets more and more terrifying,” she said at an AOL Build chat. “I need to see the result . . . because sometimes the result is really not good when you felt something, so I need to see where and why I went wrong.”

Cotillard admitted she’ll even enlist friends to help out.

“If they like [the performance] and if they think what I did is OK, then I can watch it.”

But she leaves her characters on the set.

“My son doesn’t need Lady Macbeth in his life,” she said, “I have to protect him. He has nothing to do with my s - -t.”